Places
Edinburgh
Belgrade
Berlin
the Trossachs
Bosnia, especially Sutjeska
the Scottish Poetry Library
the Hebrides
Barcelona
Also a glen in Sutherland I went to once as a teenager. I don’t know what it was called. There was a broad river winding through it; hillsides speckled with herds of wild deer & washed with cloud-shadow.

A few quotes

'Rain falls and springs rise up.
Things separate us.
Sea was sent out saltless
In clouds, to fall on land,
To live in different worlds,
Hunt and find its own way home..'
'To be the one who arranged one's own discomfort: that was the comforting thing.'
'Language is the fruit of partition, and the pay-off of loss.'
'Culture is only the face society puts on things, and changes with the tautness of the purse-skin.'
'If the world was flat, you could always see out but would always look back.'